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#1

Favorite Musical Quotes?

What are your favorites?
"Electricity sparks inside of me... and I'm free, I'm free."

Updated On: 11/20/05 at 08:17 PM

#2

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

" It's over now the Music of the Night!" POTO
"One Shifts left to right, practicing the art of the possible." Evita.
" Even though we are sitting down, we are giving you a standing ovation!" The producers
" Up until he left for Hades he was Katnip to the ladies." Woman in White.
" Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there!" Les Miz.

And about a million others
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us
#3

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"To be in love is the sweetest thing...but to risk everything for love is even sweeter!!!" -Kiss of the spider woman-
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-
#4

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"It's not the heat that's killing me... it's the humanity."
---Jeff Douglas in "Brigadoon"
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#5

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"forget regret or life is yours to miss"- rent
" you gotta think big to be big"- hairspray
#6

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you" -- Rent


"Theater is not only the meeting place of all the arts, but the return of art to life." -- Oscar Wilde
#7

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Poor Fool, he makes me laugh, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha" - Carlota

"It's good to see me, isn't it" - Galinda


"Who'd believe a chorus girl who's gone and slept with the patron?" - Sir Andre and his friend(i knew it five seconds ago...ugghh!)
#8

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lol Firmin?
"Electricity sparks inside of me... and I'm free, I'm free."
#9

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All About Ruprecht--all of it. It's just a priceless song.

Same applies with (it's on Carols for a Cure) Spelling Bee Massacres The 12 Days of Christmas.

Um...let's see...

"And we'll serve to anyone, meaning anyone...at all!" from Sweeney's A Little Priest.

"Everywhere, it's everywhere...it's everything and everywhere...Fabrizio...the light, the light in the piazza...my love..." from The Light in the Piazza (title song).
What the puck?!
#10

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"George Bush is only for now." Ave. Q
"Careful before you say 'listen to me', Children will listen" Into the Woods
"How can I win when I'm not on my side?" The Goodbye Girl
#11

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"Now there's somethin' all you ladies should know. If you wanna light your man on fire, you gotta take it real' slow!" - Shug Avery in The Color Purple
#12

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Life's not worth a damn 'til you can say 'Hey world, I am what I am!!'" - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

The whole song Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (FOSSE) - fantastic lyrics!!
#13

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Think of those crisp, aging bones, then something fresh on the palate. Think of the scrumptious carnality twice in one day, there's no possible way to describe what you feel when you're talking to your meal"-Into the Woods.
"I do not hope for what I cannot have, I do not cling to things I cannot keep, the more you cling to things the more you love them, the more the pain you suffer when they're taken from you"-Passion
"Look at him go, rattling on me, with just one more brain what a half-wit he'd be"-Chicago
"Off to the gym, then to a fitting, claiming they're fat, and looking grim 'cause they've been sitting choosing a hat...DOES ANYONE STILL WEAR A HAT?"-Company
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#14

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"Everything in life is only for now".
"Sucks to be me".
re: Favorite Musical Quotes?
"Fantasies come true"
"Big, blonde, beautiful"

Updated On: 11/21/05 at 08:48 AM

#15

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"A slotted spoon doesn't hold much soup".

And,

"The slotted spoon CAN catch the potato!!!!"

Into the Woods.
#16

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Nobody's on nobody's side"
- Tim Rice

"Why does it take an accident before the truth gets through to us?"
-Jonathan Larson

"You got to have Heart and Music!"
-William Finn

#17

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

I've said it once and I'll say it again:

Max: Bloom the 2 cardinal rules of Broadway are: 1. Never put your own money in the show...
Leo: And two?
Max: NEVER PUT YOUR OWN MONEY INNNNNNNNNN THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth
#18

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Make them beg for more and then... don't it to them!" - GYPSY

"Kids, go play in the alley" - GYPSY

"If I coulda, I woulda...and thats show business." - GYPSY
#19

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same - Chess

The world needs people like you and me who've been knocked around by fate.
'Cause when people see us, they don't want to be us, and that makes them feel great. - Avenue Q


Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm
Audrey Hepburn
#20

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"The Bush's of Tex were nervous wrecks because their son was dim - and look what happened to him" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"You got the same wig I got? (Yes) You got the same dress I got? (Yes) then shut up!" - Dreamgirls
"I'd rather make a Pot Roast, (Then go and Brown an Onion!) - and have some Peace and Quiet - (You've already HAD my Husband!)"
- Woman of the Year
"I went wearing imitation junk so large and gaudy that her diamond shrunk, the crowd went wild with a big hooray and costume jewelry was here to stay!" - CoCo
"I Invented Myself!" - The Wild Party
and the GREATEST Entrance line EVER -
"I'm Here!" - Timbuktu (Thank You Eartha!!)
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor
#21

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

I'm not a second rate queen getting kicks for the throne....from Evita
#22

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"I'm not going into the toilet! I'm going into showbusiness!" -The Producers
"Help! This crazy tomato's raping me!" - Reefer Madness
"Well, we can't all come and go by bubble." -Wicked
"Yeah, Clarissa, explain it all."
#23

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

I have to say that the best line ever written for musical theater has to be...

To Flirt With Rescue When One Has No Intention of Being Saved from "A Little Night Music"

I just love that line. It is such an amazing truth in our lives that we do this either conciously or subconciously. (did I spell that word right?)
#24

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"Does anyone still wear a hat?" -- COMPANY
"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski
#25

re: Favorite Musical Quotes?

"In his eyes i see a gentle glow and thats where i'll be safe i know" ~Jekyll and Hyde

"They say that i have the best @$$ below 14th street is it true, you're staring again" ~ Rent

"What do you want to say to me Terry? Tell me this is your chance. What do you need to say to me Terry, does it concern romance?" ~Side Show

"I telephoned my analist about it and he said to see you monday, but by monday i might be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage." ~Company

"Somebody loves me my heart is beating so fast!
All kinds of music is pouring out of me,
somebody love me at last!" ~Sweet Charity

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